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A rose by any name… Help us pick a name for Book Two

John Whitney at Columbia Business School? used to say that in the Navy we forgive you if you shoot yourself in the foot. We won’t if you do it twice.

I think I am about to do it again. The time has come to submit the final draft of book two (2) to my friends at Palgrave Macmillan. The only problem is the small issue associated with the name.

Book Two deal with the subject of option Greeks and Delta Hedging. There you go I have said it.

It starts where book one left and digs deep using a combination of Simulation and Modeling exercises in Excel. While I would like to say that it is a guide for the weary, the weary in this case represent a very small audience. It is not meant or aimed at the general public despite the fact that it has many pretty pictures along the lines of the two images shared in this post. Only those will bear to buy and (God forbid) read it who really have to get comfortable with an exotic topic in a very exotic field.

Given the obtuse nature of the topic which one of the names below would make you want to pick it up. Which one would trigger an allergic reaction? Which one would you recommend?

About the authorJawwad Farid

Jawwad Farid has been building and implementing risk models and back office systems since August 1998. Working with clients on four continents he helps bankers, board members and regulators take a market relevant approach to risk management. He is the author of Models at Work and Option Greeks Primer, both published by Palgrave Macmillan.Jawwad is a Fellow Society of Actuaries, (FSA, Schaumburg, IL), he holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and is a computer science graduate from (NUCES FAST). He is an adjunct faculty member at the SP Jain Global School of Management in Dubai and Singapore where he teaches Risk Management, Derivative Pricing and Entrepreneurship.